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Skriven 2014-05-12 11:09:00 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOE DELAHAYE
Ärende: Re: Right up your, errrr,
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On 05-11-14, JOE DELAHAYE said to TIM RICHARDSON:


TR> Yeah. I remember that. The first `drive' I had was a tape drive, too.
TR> Forgot about it till you just mentioned tapes. I could do all that
JD>typing, TR> checking out the `errors', and then `save' it all to tape!


JD>I used to get the 'syntax error in line##' a lot <G>  Sometimes hard to
JD>find. A missing letter, a coma instead of a colon or some sunch


GOD!!!!!!! I hated that! I once spent a whole Saturday looking for a `syntax
error'!...and it turned out I had a single `comma' on the wrong side of a sign
or letter!


TR> But to do a `real' program (and the ones that came on `tape' were limited
TR> around here) you had to have a 1541(?) floppy drive! Like...you couldn't
TR> get Microsoft Flight Simulator for Commodore 64 on `tape'. The tape
TR> couldn't hold even a third of the program!


JD>I had some large programs on tape.  Flight Simulator was one, and I got
JD>that before it became MS Flight Sim


I didn't find any flight simulators on tape out here.


TR> There was ONE (count 'em...ONE) computer store where you could buy
TR> Commodore's and Commodore stuff, and I had to drive right past it every
TR> day to get to and from work. Finally stopped in one day, took a look at
TR> the computer and bought my first Commodore 64! A floppy drive was a few
TR> years down the road...they were costly out here back then. When I finally
TR> could afford a 1541 floppy drive, Microsoft Flight Simulator was the
JD>first TR> big program I bought.


JD>Too bad they no longer develop either MS Flight Sim, or the Links golf


I got Flight Simulator X a few years back, but very few add-ons for it work on
Vista. They `load'...but then the cockpit doesn't work, or the plane isn't
`there' when you switch to `outside' view. Some will fly along fine for a
while then the programs `hangs'.


I miss the Tiger Woods golf programs in the computer format. Starting around
2009 or 10 it went to xbox format. There was a Tiger Woods 2012, but it sucked
for computer format. They only developed it fully for xbox or playstation,not
desk tops.


I miss it.





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